Delivery and loading means for bakery products or the like



Oct. 11, 1932. c. 'BRYKCZYNSK] ET AL DELIVERY AND LOADING MEANS FORBAKERY PRODUCTS OR THE LIKE.

Filed Sepfi.

11. 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 1932- c. BRYKCZYNSK'IYET AL 1,882,238

DELIVERY AND LOADING MEANS FOR BAKERY PRODUCTS OR THE LIKE Filed Sept.11. 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 f4 5 92 4%, IN VEN TORD' ZM fiwmw PatentedOct. 11, 1932 UNITEDISTQ'ATES PATENT. owl-ca CHARLES ZBBYKCZYNSKI, orBROOKLYN, AND JULIUS cHMnRzyNsKI. or. Asronrn, ...NEW'YORK :o L IvEnY nnLOADING MEANS ro a BAKERY-recliners on THE LIKE Application filedSeptember 11, 1931. Serial No. 562,298.

The'present invention relates to loading and, delivery means for bakeryproducts or the like.

In the delivery, of such products from the bakery to the consumer, rapidand hygienic loadingthereof into the delivery wagons is essential.Furthermore, for efficient delivery, the wagons themselves must besoconstructed as to permit loading to full capacity. It 1s alsoessential'that the wagon structure be such that the products can behandled in sanitary manner and that there be, therefore, ready access toall parts ofthewagoninteriorboth when the latter is loaded and unloaded.r

Heretofore it has been customary to store bakers products in boxes,baskets or the like 7 and placing the same on shelves or the like in thewagon, which for the purpose of ready access have been made collapsibleor of the interlocking type. But such method and structure having beenfound to be objectionable for many reasons, particularly because Iunwieldy and ineflicient.

While primarily this invention consists in I the structure of theloading and the delivery means, the problem of transportation of the 1bakery products from the oven or baking room to the delivery wagons isalso part of this invention. I

It is one object of this invention to obviate said drawbacksin aneifective'simple manner.

It is a further object of this invention to provide a structurewhich'can be appliedto existing vehicles.

A still further object therefore, is the provision of simpleandefiicient means for facilitating the transportation of the bakeryproducts from Wagon. r

Still another, objectis to provide special the baking room to thedelivery holders or collectors for the bakery products,

designed particularlyfor the convenient, sanitary and eflicient handlingof bread loaves, or the like. 7 c

With the above and other objects in view, our invention comprises thenovel construe.- tion, combination and arrangement of eleinents to be.hereinafter, more fully described 7 Referring now more in detail to thedrawand shown and defined in the appended claims. I

In the accompanying drawings which form apart of this specification andin which similar reference characters denote;-correspomi 1 'ing parts.:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the body of a delivery wagon as seenfrom the rear end thereof, equipped with means for storing F ig; 6 is aperspective view of portable support; or rack for a pluralityofcollectors or troughs; and

Fig. 7 is a cross section on line "Z -7'of a collector or trough.

ings and first to the structure shown inF-igs. 15, 10 designates thebody of a delivery wagon having at its rearend the usual hinged doors11. Along the inner face 10 of each so of the opposite side walls of"the wagon are suitably fixed in superposed parallelposition a pluralityof longitudinally extending angle bars or members 12, the two oppositesets of said bars beingiarranged at suitableequal s5 distances apartfrom one another and constitutingrunways for thecollectors 13 on whichthe products are adapted to'be stored in the wagon for delivery. a V

The collectors 13 as seen from Figs. 6 and? to are inform of trays ortroughs preferably of the shapeshown, i. e. consisting of anelongatedrectangular frame 13* and an undu-v lated or corrugatedsupporting surface or a bed 13 divided by the undulations longitudinallyinto several: concaved compartments which in cross sections are adaptedto 'sub-- stantially conform with the shape of a loaf of bread ortheparticular product for which it is to be used 'sothat the latter maybecon-r 10' ments of the superposed veniently stored 'in adjacentlongitudinal rowsin the said collector or trough.13. It will be notedthat the pieces 13 of the frame N 13 project beyond the lowermost pointof the depression of each compartment and thus one another. 7

For the purpose of permittingair circula tion the surface 18 may beperforated as at placed on opposite runways or bars 12 can be easilyshifted along the latter from one end of the wagon to the other. Theclearance between the ends of'the cut-out portions is slightly largerthan the total width of a trough 13, so;that when the sections 14 ofrun- "ways or, bars 12 are turned on the pivots 15 an angle of 90 ormore, the trough located over, the movable section 14 can, be readilytroughsen -aging ip'assedthroughthe opening formed from an upper to alower set of runways, or'vice versa.

is particularly important for wagons' in 1, Th e r ug .1 'wh n' d wit te ;w'hich the'wheels (not shown) of the wagon products can be placedinto the wagon llke shelves to be supported oneachpair of'op- V positeiron bars orrunways 12 and ad Usted to lie adjacent'to one" another inho'rizontal n rows extending throughout the length of the "innerspace-of the delivery 'wagon'. 4

The several sets or rows of troughs will be thus positioned insuperposed manner slidably and removably bearing in shelf-like manneronthe superposed-pairs-of runways V In orderto facilitate the shifting of'the troughs within the Wagon from an upper pair of runways to a lowerone and vice versa'and "thus afford easy access to or quick delivery 0of the products stored on a particular trough without the necessity l-of removing other troughs from the wagon the following 'construction isemployed: i

The angle bars 12 are provided each 5 a movable section 14 whichaccording to the present embodiment a-re'shown-in form of hingedsections; 'To this end eachangle-bar has a cut away portion,preferably-nearthe 'rifront end thereof- TheQfrontend of said cutawayportion is formedwith an L-shapd bend 12, the horizontal portion12 ofwhich extendsbelow the upper horizontal face 12 "of the angle baror'runway a distance substantiallyr' equal to the thickne'ss' thereof.

stantially equal to that'of the 'cut-away part l of the'angle'bar 12.The rearend 14- of said section is bent-downwardlyf-soas to engage thelower *face' of the horizontal leg of the angle bar 12. Fixed atlthefrearrendof the cut-out portion-of the lower :face of the angle \bar 12is abentarm 16 adapted to engage the lower'face .of 'thevdepressed part'14 of the section 14 and 'support ithe latter {in "position of useinwhich"the-:inovable sections 14'1wil1 be perfectly even-with thehorizont'al legs ofthe bars 12, so that the troughs"13 This horizontaliportion1'12 serves as arest flord'erto economically utilizeth'e'entirefs'pace -'of-thef-interior of the wagon for storing'the{products the sets of runways'12 nustbe arranged on'e'a'c'h side wall asclosely as possible to onefanother. 1 Henceeach of'the' lower-mostrunways if arrangedclose to the bottommay be c'u t up int'wo partsby'the bulging portion 10* which will prevent the shifting of thetroughs from the rear to the'front end of the wagon and in fact make itdiflicultto position the troughs in the front part ofthe wagon. "By 'theprovision of the hinged sections 14 of the bars 12 this objection willbe obviated; in that it is possible tofeasily position the trays ontoand remove *the same from the bottom of or lowermost set'of runw'ays byfirst'swinging the; corresponding hinged sections 14 of "the "adjacentset :a-rourid their-"pivot; and *transfer the particulars traysfrointheupper or lower runways to the bottom ora lower or higher runwayas the case. maybe. I

a 1 It is also obvious that instead ofproviding each runwa-y'withfonehinged section; there a may be twojormore such sections as shown in22.511 v l v To still more facilitate manipulation of the troughs in thewagon while loading andpnloading of shifting said t oughs without the Vnecessity of exposingtheproducts'to rain 'or snow, we also rovida'ccessthereto through "thefront wall of' the'wagonh This access is IThis provisionof such movable sections 14 front doors "1'7 consist of'twol half-sections I slidably mounted at" their bottom ;on" parallel?rails 18 and on topuin guidegroovesfl9 fprovided attheg-front-end of thewagon.' The fouter walls 19 1 of said-5 guide grooves are f movableeither onj-hinges or pivots as shown inFig-J' S in orderto'facilitat-e-the rem-Qv I f 1 the door sections when it is desired tounload for load the troughs from' thel front rather'than the rearof-thewagoni To transpose'the troughsin thewagon on the diflerentrunwaysthe door sections need" i For the transport of the troughs from theovenor baking room to the wagon a portable rack 20 supported on wheels 21 isem ployed. This rack comprises a U-shaped frame formedof twoend pieces20' connected by a set of vertically superposed U-shaped angle bars 20fixed thereto and which form supports or shelves for the troughs 13.These troughs are adapted to be positioned on and removed from saidshelves through the open side of said rack and to bear on the shelvesthereof with their end edges and one side edge.

A removable stanchion or post 22 is mounted at the rear of thewagon'whic'h serves to prevent the loaded troughs from slipping out ofthe wagon when the latter is loaded.

The use of our device is as follows The breads or other bakery productsas they come from the oven are stacked on the troughs or collectors 13and the latter are placed upon the portable rack 20. The loaded rack isthen rolled from the baking room to the delivery wagon. Here the troughsare individually removed from the racks and mounted on the respectivepairs of angle bars in the wagon, first on the lower pair, then on thesecond pair, etc., until the entire wagon is filled. To load on thelower pair of angle bars in the front part of the wagon the movablesections 14 of the adjacent pair of angle bars are swung open and thetrough lowered through the gap onto the lower pair ofangle bars.

hen arriving at a delivery point, the troughs to be delivered areindividually removed from the wagon, emptied into the consumersreceptacle and replaced in the wagon.

By reason of their construction loaded.

troughs may he slipped over and rest in unloaded ones.

The movable portions 14 in the angle bars 12 permit troughs to beshifted from one set of runways to another within the truck withoutremoving them from the latter. This affords the deliverer great ease ofmanipulation and facility of adjustment of the loadas well as readyaccess to any particular trough. g

The rack in width, height, and in the spacing and number of shelvesthereof may be made to exactly correspond. with the inner width andheight. of the vehicle and spacing and number of runways therein,.sothat the rack may be brought up close to the opened rear end of thevehicle and the troughs shoved from the rack. onto the runways of thevehicle thereby avoiding the lifting of the troughs from the shelves ofthe truck and greatly facilitate loading. i

It is obvious that various modifications may be made in theconstruct-ion of the device without departing from the spirit of our 1invention and we therefore do not wish to restrict ourselves to thedetails of the constructions described and shown.

What we'claim is .1

1. In a delivery vehicle, a plurality ofhorizontal pairs of parallellyextending runways, the individual runways of each pair beingrespectively mounted on opposite walls. ofthe .vehiclebody forsupporting collectors therebe'tween, each of said runways being providedwith a removable sectionwhich when removed will leave a gap in therespective runway of sufficient dimensions to permit transfer ofcollectors from a pair of runways at one levelto another pair of runwaysat a different level without removal of said collectors from saidvehicle. I

2. In a delivery vehicle, a plurality of horizontally mounted pairs ofparallelly extending runways at various levels therein for supportingcollectors therebetween, each of said runways being provided with aremovable section which when removed leaves a gap in its respectiverunway of sufiicient dimensions to permit transfer of collectors from apair of runways at one level to another pair at a different. levelwithout removal of said collectors from said vehicle.

3. In a delivery vehicle, a plurality of horizontally mounted pairs ofparallelly extending runways at various levels therein for supportingcollectors therebetween, each of said runways being provided with apivoted section which may be moved horizontally about its pivot pointand which is so admeasured in length that it leaves a gap in itsrespective runway of sufficient dimensions to permit transfer ofcollectors from a pair of runways at one level to another pair atanother level without removal of said collectors from said vehicle.

' 4. In a vehicle having a delivery body, a

plurality of horizontal pairs of parallelly extending runways, theindividual runways of each pair being mounted on opposite side walls ofsaid body for supporting an article tray therebetween, each of saidrunways be ing provided with a pivoted section which may be moved aboutits pivot point to leave a gap 1n. said runway and which is so ad-'measured in length that when moved said gap in each runway is ofsufficient dimensionsto permit transfer of trays from a pair of runwaysat one level to another pair at another level without removal of saidcollectors from said vehicle. 1

5. In a vehicle having a delivery body, a plurality'of longitudinallysuperposed pairs of horizontally extending angle bars, the members ofeach pair being mounted respectively to opposite side walls of said bodyand serving as runways to receive article trays, each of said angle barsbeing provided with cut away portion so admeasured as to per mit passagethei'ethrough ofa trayfwhereby said tray maybe shifted fromapairiofangle bars at One le el to a pair at another level Without beingrenioved from said' vehicle body and a pivotedanglefbar section for. 7it I closing each gap and means for mounting said 7- sections so thatwhen in place the top surface ofeach runway will be even throughout itslengthlr W Y In testimony whereof'we our signatures. v CHARLESBRYKCZYNSKI. V JULIUSCHMURZYNSKI.

